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* CIMON, 1st Robot with Artificial Intelligence to Fly in Space >>
* Google DeepMind AI can imagine a 3D model from a 2D image >>
* Can your smartphone stop you from getting hit by a car? >>

* Future Astronauts Must Perform Surgery in Space — and It Will Be Gross >>
* Marriage of AI, Google chips will save diabetics from a lot of pricks >>
* Restricting a key cellular nutrient could slow tumor growth >>

* How robots aided by deep learning could help autism therapists >>
* US Army Troops Could Be Headed to the Space Force >>
* Boeing’s Hypersonic Vision: A Sleek Passenger Plane That Can Hit Mach 5 >>

* Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation >>
* Doctrine raises $11.6 million for its legal search engine >>
* Chinese Military Developed Tech to Fight Your Acidic Sweat >>

* AI as a Force for Good >>
* Future of Cybersecurity Is the Quantum Random Number Generator >>
* Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021 >>

* SpaceX Launches Used Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station, Flexing Reusability Muscles >>
* Honda Halts Asimo Development in Favor of More Useful Humanoid Robots >>
* Curing cancer one nanoparticle at a time, and more news from TED speakers >>

* Our first contact with aliens might be with their robots >>
* Next generation solar technology could drive down the cost of scrubbing salt from seawater. >>
* Leena AI builds HR chatbots to answer policy questions automatically >>

* Amazon Comprehend now supports asynchronous processing along with larger document sizes >>
* Is Colonizing Mars the Most Important Project in Human History? >>
* 20 Mice Are Going to Space To Help Us Figure out How to Survive on Mars >>

* A Venus Aircraft Could Be in NASA’s Plans >>
* Apollo 11 Gantry Arm Lands in NASA Gift Shop >>
* Nuclear Fusion Power Could Be Here by 2030, One Company Says >>

* Scientists Develop Thermal Camouflage That Can Dupe Infrared Cameras >>
* VR blockchain startup founded by Second Life co-creator raises $35M >>
* Chat app Line to launch crypto exchange in July but it won’t cover US or Japan >>

* Scientists dupe infrared cameras with thermal camouflage >>
* India’s Times Internet buys popular video app MX Player for $140M to get into streaming >>
* Apple rumor points to a TV, music and news subscription bundle >>

* You may soon store your entire media collection on one SD card >>
* Top Air Force General says US military must continue to use AI – and dismisses Google backlash over controversial Project Maven as ‘part of being an American’ >>
* SpaceX Launching Cargo Mission to Space Station Early Friday: Watch Live >>

* Don’t call him HAL… NASA reveals Cimon the AI ‘crew member’ set to blast off to the International Space Station >>
* Rise of the robot doctor: AI smartphone app that asks patients 30 questions about their pain and symptoms is ‘as good as a medic’ for diagnosing patients >>
* Istio Service Mesh for Containers >>

* Showtime is making a Halo TV series >>
* National Geographic Named The Best Travel Photos Of The Year, And They Are Stunning >>
* Driverless race car to attempt the first ever autonomous hillclimb >>

* Meet the AR startup that wants to give live theater an augmented makeover >>
* We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air. >>
* High-tech sensors new weapon in war on pests >>

* LG may squeeze five cameras into its next flagship phone >>
* IBM’s AI robot ‘Watson’ will study the emotions of the crowd >>
* A new arms race threatens to unleash laser warfare in the skies >>

* Google insists Duplex AI-powered voice calling is real, Limited testing begins this summer. >>
* This is what it’s like to speak with Google’s reservation-making AI service >>
* We tried to trip up Google Duplex, the bot that sounds human, and failed >>
* Google AI will warn people when it’s calling them >>

* Interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid >>
* Mars could have been habitable 100 million years before Earth >>
* Enceladus is spewing out organic molecules necessary for life >>

* WiFi security is finally getting an update after 14 years >>
* Microsoft’s facial recognition just got better at identifying people with dark skin >>
* Autonomous three-armed robot can create a pizza from scratch in less than five minutes >>

* DARPA wheels change from tires to tracks without stopping >>
* ‘Skyrim VR’ is now easier to play and better to look at >>
* Researchers decode molecule that gives living tissues their flexibility >>

* MagnetMod launches Kickstarter for new ‘revolutionary’ softbox system >>
* Have we been looking for aliens in the wrong place? Scientists claim our focus on finding watery worlds may be hampering our search for ET >>
* Uber is officially back on the road in London, but only for 15 months >>

* Alien Life Searches of the Future –“Chemical Probes of Potentially Habitable Planets Orbiting Cooler Stars” >>
* This Scientist Thinks Aliens Will Need to ‘Catch’ Stars to Survive >>
* Here’s what alien astronomers would see if they looked at Earth >>

* AI and robotics have been separate fields up to now >>
* Will Launching Plants into Orbit Yield New Medicines? >>
* US Navy reveals ‘superslippery’ submarine and warship coating that lets craft slide through the water more easily >>

* Being neurotic is in your DNA: Scientists discover 599 genes related to the personality trait in biggest ever study of its kind >>
* Crewed missions to the moon and Mars need dreamers and doers >>
* Made in Space targets 2023 for building large structures in space and later future asteroid mining >>

* This new solar farm combines clean energy and beehives >>
* Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI >>
* Worlds Adrift: can its billion-dollar tech make it the next Fortnite? >>

* There are two types of worrier – which you are depends on genes >>
* 3D face-detection could come to the Samsung Galaxy S10 >>
* Tencent Joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member >>

* Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement >>
* Sphero branches out beyond robots with Specdrums acquisition >>
* Westworld Leaves Its Biggest Questions for Another Season >>

* China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker >>
* Volkswagen’s all-electric race car conquers Pikes Peak hill climb in record time >>
* MoviePass is Going To Start Charging More For Popular Movies Next Month >>

* What if Autonomous Vehicles Actually Make Us More Dependent on Cars? >>
* Neurons Made From Blood Cells—A New Tool for Understanding Brain Diseases >>
* Shipping containers are now being used for cryptocurrency mining >>

* World’s tiniest ‘computer’ makes a grain of rice seem massive >>
* Robot burger restaurant set to open in San Francisco making burgers untouched by human hands >>
* Adobe is using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images >>

* Research team discovers drug compound that stops cancer cells from spreading >>
* Simulation of inflatable heatshield for reusable second stage >>

* Intel now faces a fight for its future >>
* Speedy genetic tool could soon let scientists create new DNA ‘overnight’ that may help humans live forever >>
* US Army has made a plastic bandage that swells to patch wounds >>

* How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Us Live Longer >>
* First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains >>
* How machine intelligence is remaking the American economy >>

* World Cup suffers massive ratings drop in the U.S. >>
* These are China’s new underwater drones >>
* Solar and Energy Storage Combine for One Power Energy Solution >>

* Venezuelan economy heading to complete collapse in months and probably a military coup >>
* How to supervise a robot with your mind and hand gesture s >>
* Air Force will pay $130 million for Falcon Heavy satellite launch by 2020 >>

* New Model Predicts That We’re Probably The Only Advanced Civilization In The Observable Universe >>
* Where Does Trump’s ‘Space Force’ Fit in the International Agreement on Peaceful Use of Space? >>
* The undersea electric railway built and abandoned within six years >>

* Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin reveals it will start selling tickets to tourists next year >>
* Swarm of robot wildlife will check for life in an Italian lagoon >>
* Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is gearing up to bomb an asteroid >>